Imperfect

small web search

Yunzi's Lets try searching the small web. surprised me with how many No results found search results Kagi Small Web showed for hobby, interest, and related searches. I felt inspired to test Kagi Small Web against all 191 of YouGov Ratings' The most popular activities in America 2026 at the time of writing. Have some more notes on both the ranking and the experiment:

Data

Without further ado, behold the table below which used the ranking's default sort and filter options (sorted by activity popularity and filtered by all adults):

# Activity Results found No results found
1 Listening to music listening to music
2 Watching movies watching movies
3 Spending time with family spending time with family
4 Spending time with friends spending time with friends
5 Going to the park going to the park
6 Traveling traveling
7 Walking walking
8 Baking baking
9 Eating out eating out at restaurants
10 Reading reading
11 Watching TV tv, watching tv
12 Playing Board games playing board games
13 Live music live music
14 Swimming swimming
15 Grilling grilling
16 Visiting historical sites historical sites visiting historical sites
17 Surfing the internet surfing the internet
18 Cooking cooking
19 Going to the beach going to the beach
20 Puzzles puzzles
21 Visiting museums museums visiting museums
22 Spending time with partner spending time with partner
23 Sightseeing sightseeing
24 Photography photography
25 Going to the movies going to the movies
26 Exercising exercising
27 Telling jokes jokes telling jokes
28 Stand-up comedy stand-up comedy
29 Taking care of my pets pet care taking care of my pets
30 Dog walking dog walking
31 Volunteering volunteering
32 Playing an instrument playing an instrument
33 Gardening gardening
34 Writing writing
35 Storytelling storytelling
36 Going to concerts going to concerts
37 Pool pool
38 Shopping shopping
39 Bowling bowling
40 Camping camping
41 Painting painting
42 DIY diy
43 Creative Writing creative writing
44 Gymnastics gymnastics
45 Going to theme parks going to theme parks, theme parks, going to amusement parks, amusement parks
46 Miniature golf miniature golf
47 Drawing drawing
48 Quizzes quiz quizzes
49 Jigsaws jigsaw jigsaws
50 Baseball baseball
51 Fitness, Training, Sport fitness, training, sport
52 Playing video games playing video games
53 Billiards billiards
54 Martial arts martial arts
55 Filmmaking filmmaking
56 Book collecting book collecting
57 Writing letters writing letters
58 Softball softball
59 Learning foreign languages learning foreign languages
60 Decorating decorating
61 Weight training weight training
62 Yoga yoga
63 Oil painting oil painting
64 Using social media using social media
65 Collecting collecting
66 Figure skating figure skating, skating
67 Scuba diving scuba diving, scuba
68 Ice skating ice skating
69 Chess chess
70 Poetry poetry
71 Meditation meditation
72 Songwriting songwriting
73 People watching people watching
74 Antiquing antiquing, antiques
75 Acting acting
76 Archery archery
77 Buying and selling online online sales buying and selling online
78 Calligraphy calligraphy
79 Wine tasting wine tasting
80 Collecting antiques collecting antiques
81 Table tennis table tennis
82 Target shooting target shooting
83 Football football
84 Bingo bingo
85 Wood carving carving wood carving
86 Pottery pottery
87 Sudoku sudoku
88 Writing & Drawing Comic Books writing & drawing comic books
89 Fishing fishing
90 Darts darts
91 Cycling cycling
92 Cleaning cleaning
93 Volleyball volleyball
94 Genealogy genealogy
95 Sewing sewing
96 Karaoke karaoke
97 Canoeing canoe canoeing
98 Jewelry-making jewelry jewelry-making
99 Composing composing
100 Art collecting art collecting
101 Hula hooping hula hooping, hula hoop, hooping
102 Writing poetry writing poetry
103 Attending sporting events live sports attending sporting events, sporting events, sports events
104 Skiing and winter sports skiing, winter sports
105 Rafting rafting
106 Basketball basketball
107 Coin collecting coin collecting, coin collection
108 Running running
109 Tennis tennis
110 Surfing surfing
111 Soccer soccer
112 Cheesemaking cheesemaking
113 LEGO collecting lego lego collecting, lego collection
114 Record collecting record collecting
115 Diving diving
116 Glass painting glass painting
117 Paper Crafting origami paper crafting
118 Juggling juggling
119 Scrapbooking scrapbook scrapbooking
120 Housework housekeeping housework
121 Ballet ballet
122 Shooting shooting
123 Model Building model building
124 Dating dating
125 Boxing boxing
126 Rock Collecting rock collecting
127 Badminton badminton
128 Extreme Sports extreme sports
129 Drinking drinking
130 Horse Racing horse racing
131 Poker poker
132 Going to the ballet/dance performances dance performance going to the ballet, dance performances
133 Candlemaking candlemaking, making candles
134 Scootering scooter scootering
135 Astrology astrology
136 Airbrushing airbrushing, airbrush painting, airbrush
137 Motorsports motorsports, motorsport
138 Knitting knitting
139 Pickling pickling
140 Line dancing line dancing
141 Cross-stitch cross-stitch
142 Bicycle tours bicycle tours, bike tours
143 Long-Distance Running long-distance running
144 Winemaking making wine winemaking
145 Fingerpainting finger painting fingerpainting
146 Sailing sailing
147 Skateboarding skateboard skateboarding
148 Cross training cross training
149 Pilates pilates
150 Stamp collecting stamp collecting, philately
151 Alpine skiing alpine skiing
152 Off-roading off-road off-roading
153 Pickleball pickleball
154 Sports car racing car racing, auto racing, vehicle racing sports car racing, automobile racing
155 Sports card collecting sports cards sports card collecting, sports card
156 Golf golf
157 Pole dancing pole dancing
158 Dirt Biking dirt bike dirt biking, dirt bikes
159 Zumba zumba
160 Weaving weaving
161 Backgammon backgammon
162 Marathon marathon
163 Disc Jockey (DJing) dj disc jockey, djing
164 Public speaking public speaking
165 Blogging blogging
166 Homebrewing homebrewing
167 Fishkeeping fishkeeping
168 Bull riding bull riding, riding bulls, rodeo
169 Fly fishing fly fishing
170 Curling curling
171 Hunting hunting
172 Formula 1 formula 1
173 Gambling and Betting gambling and betting
174 Collecting autographs collecting autographs, autographs, autograph
175 Crossfit crossfit
176 Going to the Opera opera going to the opera
177 Aerial Silks aerial yoga aerial silks
178 Puppetry puppetry
179 Clock collecting watch collecting clock collecting
180 Cricket cricket
181 Primitive hunting primitive hunting
182 Fly tying fly tying
183 Aqua Zumba aqua zumba
184 Tarot tarot
185 Hot yoga hot yoga
186 Quilling quilling
187 Hatha yoga hatha yoga
188 Cryptograms cryptograms
189 Wargaming war gaming, war games wargaming
190 Acroyoga acroyoga
191 Cardistry card tricks cardistry, playing card tricks

Results not or partially found

Since the above table lacks sort and filter features to quickly identify what activities didn't yield results, I compiled these lists.

Results not found

  1. bowling (39)
  2. going to theme parks (45)
  3. billiards (53)
  4. martial arts (54)
  5. figure skating (66)
  6. scuba diving (67)
  7. ice skating (68)
  8. antiquing (74)
  9. archery (76)
  10. collecting antiques (80)
  11. pottery (86)
  12. sudoku (87)
  13. darts (90)
  14. volleyball (93)
  15. hula hooping (101)
  16. coin collecting (107)
  17. cheesemaking (112)
  18. extreme sports (128)
  19. horse racing (130)
  20. candlemaking (133)
  21. airbrushing (136)
  22. motorsports (137)
  23. pickling (139)
  24. bicycle tours (142)
  25. stamp collecting (150)
  26. alpine skiing (151)
  27. pickleball (153)
  28. zumba (159)
  29. backgammon (161)
  30. homebrewing (166)
  31. bull riding (168)
  32. collecting autographs (174)
  33. primitive hunting (181)
  34. fly tying (182)
  35. aqua zumba (183)
  36. hot yoga (185)
  37. quilling (186)
  38. hatha yoga (187)
  39. cryptograms (188)
  40. acroyoga (190)
  1. visiting historical sites (16)
  2. visiting museums (21)
  3. telling jokes (27)
  4. taking care of my pets (29)
  5. quizzes (48)
  6. jigsaws (49)
  7. buying and selling online (77)
  8. wood carving (85)
  9. canoeing (97)
  10. jewelry-making (98)
  11. attending sporting events (103)
  12. lego collecting (113)
  13. paper crafting (117)
  14. scrapbooking (119)
  15. housework (120)
  16. going to the ballet/dance performances (132)
  17. scootering (134)
  18. winemaking (144)
  19. fingerpainting (145)
  20. skateboarding (147)
  21. off-roading (152)
  22. sports car racing (154)
  23. sports card collecting (155)
  24. dirt biking (158)
  25. disc jockey (163)
  26. going to the opera (176)
  27. aerial silks (177)
  28. clock collecting (179)
  29. wargaming (189)
  30. cardistry (191)

Questions

Ending this post with some hopefully inspiring questions for you: